Joe Orton’s 1964 play, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, is a class conscious satire with classic ingredients. It has type characters, no…
Nina Nichols
What sells best in commercial theater is song and dance, a popular beat and finger snapping tunes that come together…
The playwright John Patrick Shanley commenting on his own work says, “Defiance is a necessary step in the life of…
Tarted up in a pale-blue clinging wrap trimmed with white fur, the brilliant Beverly (Jennifer Jason Leigh) sashays across her…
Let the following remarks serve as an homage to Harold Pinter who has just won the Nobel Prize for Literature….
Nuncle Low (Nathan Lane), manager of a derelict children’s theater, is harried by typical problems: money, money, and something wrong…
The current revival of Tennessee Williams’ family drama is luminous–a Glass Menagerie with acting and directing so smooth as to…
Arthur Miller was at least the greatest playwright of his generation. His one possible rival, Tennessee Williams, exploited quite different…
Our review of a Broadway production of Hedda Gabler The current Hedda Gabler at the New York Theatre Workshop goes…
Arthur Miller is our national treasure. He is always important, tackling big issues that echo in the mind long after…
Aristophanes was a favorite in his own time, when The Frogs won first prize at a Dionysian festival, 405 B.C.E.,…
Something strange happens when Shakespeare goes out of doors, every summer, all over the country. A fit of poetry, something…
New York The Promenade Theatre June 10 – August 22, 2004 It’s a talk play. Or more of a situation…
McCallum, the new crime thriller made by Scottish television, is for nice people. There’s only a token flash of sex…